Ontology

OBIB

Ontology for Biobanking

The Ontology for Biobanking (OBIB) is an ontology for the annotation and modeling of the activities, contents, and administration of a biobank. Biobanks are facilities that store specimens, such as bodily fluids and tissues, typically along with specimen annotation and clinical data. OBIB is based on a subset of the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI), has the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as its upper ontology, and is developed following OBO Foundry principles.

biobankhealth scienceoboontology
B74

FAIR 47/48

Version 2023-04-05

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagegithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)obib2023-04-051,80317222625 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardobib2023-04-051,804——11 Dec 2025

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obib.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/obib/2023-04-05/obib.owl

Languages en

Imports from (29)
APOLLO_SV BFO CHEBI CL CLO DOID DRON EFO ENVO GEOGEO GO HANCESTRO IAO ICO IDO NCBITaxon NCIT OAE OBI OGMS OMO OMRSE PATO PCO PR RO SO UBERON UO

Reused by (13)
APOLLO_SV CIDO GENEPIO ICO NGBO OMRSE ONS OOSTT OPMI SLSO EUPATH OBI RBO

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
yes
ROBOT report
0 errors · 0 warnings · 3 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
17,807 · 66.74% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: OBIB bioportal: OBIB fairsharing: FAIRsharing.bxc508 obofoundry: obib ols: obib ontobee: OBIB wikidata.entity: Q55118499

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0068-y+3
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 29: apollo_sv, bfo, chebi, cl, clo, doid, dron, efo…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2023-04-05 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality20/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profilein OWL 2 DL+2
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density0 warnings / 1804 classes = 0.00+1
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance2/16
  • Recency2025-06-11 → 16.5 months (≤ 2 years)+2
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases (GitHub releases)0
U Community adoption6/16
  • Documented adopting projects2 projects+2
  • Reused by other ontologies13: apollo_sv, cido, genepio, ico, ngbo, omrse…+3
  • Community signalmax(stars 16 → 1, citations 23 → 1)+1
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-1
  • Time since last activity1.4 years → 4 × max(0, 1.4 − 1)-1
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 75/100 − 1 inactivity = 74/100 → grade B

Community adoption 2

  • github.com

    TURBO ontology supporting the PennTURBO project.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • biospecimens.cancer.gov

    The National Cancer Institute Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch (BBRB) is an international leader in research and policy activities related to biospecimen collection, processing, and storage, also known as biobanking.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC74 B472023-04-051,803JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
Git refs (commit 68d826c, latest tag 20210202)github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 11 Dec 2025)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0068-y)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot

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